yes - they've made too much of it

Bikes are fun. Forgot about that

alot of those where repeats he should have stoped at ten rathr than dragging it out to 17

Poor? Let me see, I ride a $4,500 MTB which I carry around in an old beater that's worth $3,000 (I paid $3,200 for it two years ago)

you don't tend to commute on a $4,500 mtb
I can see where he's coming from, even if you can't

It's the same thing here, I commute everyday to work, to the city, whatever. whenever I can, I use the bike..But people keeping asking me when I will take my drivers license( that I have) or when I will buy a car or a motorcycle..

what and there is no pollution produced from the manufacturing of thousands of cars each year. and how there are way more toxic chemicals found on a car like anti-freeze, DOT brake fluid, oil, gasoline, and many more where as a bike has only ONE toxic chemical.

Its stupid to say bikes have no carbon footprint, they do, but what a car generates during production and over its life is no doubt like comparing pluto and the sun in size. Go ride a bike!

Don't forget the ocasional methane emissions

am a mechanic and i agree with adrenaline junkie, bikes are harmful and take a toll on our environment, though granted they are less harmful than cars, but they still use DOT fluid, rubber, oil, solvents and MANY other harmful chemicals and materials that are bad for the environment, where do you think your old tubes and tires go? into landfills, with the exception of a VERY FEW bike shops that have the ability to recycle those materials, not to mention the FEW shops that recycle the metal parts such as cables ect. and bike burn through tires and tubes much faster than a car does burn through it tires, Now im all for riding bikes i love bikes, but they are still harmful to the environment and while an excellent alternative to cars the bike industry has a long ways to go to become 'zero waste' and more environmentally friendly

You know that your shoes also generate waste to produce, right? Would you stop walking because of it? There is no such thing as 'zero waste' in any product that we consume.

Also, for those saying that bikes are harmful because of DOT, just remember that there are way more commuting bikes with cantis in circulation than our big-buck-high-end MTB. I believe the above article relates to "useful bikes" as opposed to "useless bikes". Since our MTB are mostly used for recreation, they are definitely "useless bikes" because of the fact that they aren't used to produce anything, except waste. "Useful bikes" have a smaller footprint because they are directly or undirectly use to produce something or to satisfy a basic need. Top that with simpler designs and components and you find yourself with a environmentally negligable way of transport!

This article was a good start to something that could be a great read. I agree with the cmfreeride. It really said the same thing a couple of times.
Bicycles don't work as well in North America because everything is just to far; Product of the car. This could be easily fixed with smaller communities but who does that now?

its getting close to that time. we need local food.,local work, and global fun
cool.
bike on

ill second that, ive read much better pro-bike articles. that said at least people are catching on to bikes more and more.

i agree who votes we get the government to buy each family a hummer h-1 ?